D-Link DXE-820T User manual

DXE-820T
Dual Port 10GBASE-T RJ-45 PCI Express Adapter
Manual
V1.00

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Index
1. Introduction ...........................................................................................................7
1.1. Functionality and Features ....................................................................7
1.1.1. Functional Description...................................................................7
1.1.2. Features..........................................................................................7
2. System Requirements ............................................................................................9
2.1. Hardware Requirements ........................................................................9
2.2. Operating System Requirements ...........................................................9
2.2.1. Microsoft Windows........................................................................9
2.2.2. Linux...............................................................................................9
2.2.3. VMware ESX ...................................................................................9
2.3. Connecting the Network Cables ............................................................9
3. Installing Management Applications ...................................................................11
3.1. Installing the Broadcom Advanced Control Suite and Related
Management Applications...................................................................................12
3.1.1. Installing on a Windows System ..................................................12
3.1.2. Installing on a Linux System .........................................................14
3.1.3. Managing Management Applications (Windows) .......................14
4. Advanced Teaming Concepts ...............................................................................16
4.1. Network Addressing.............................................................................16
4.2. Teaming and Network Addresses.........................................................17
4.3. Description of Teaming Types ..............................................................17
4.3.1. Smart Load Balancing and Failover..............................................18
4.3.2. Generic Trunking..........................................................................20
4.3.3. Link Aggregation (IEEE 802.3ad LACP) .........................................20
4.3.4. SLB (Auto-Fallback Disable)..........................................................21
4.4. Teaming and Other Advanced Networking Properties........................21
4.4.1. IEEE 802.1p QoS Tagging..............................................................22
4.4.2. Jumbo Frames..............................................................................22
4.4.3. IEEE 802.1Q VLANs.......................................................................22
4.4.4. Preboot Execution Environment ..................................................23
5. NIC Partitioning....................................................................................................24
5.1. Supported Operating Systems for NIC Partitioning .............................24
5.2. Configuring for NIC Partitioning...........................................................24
6. Using Broadcom Advanced Control Suite 4 .........................................................27
6.1. Starting Broadcom Advanced Control Suite.........................................27

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6.2. BACS Interface......................................................................................27
6.2.1. Explorer View Pane ......................................................................27
6.2.2. Context View Selector..................................................................28
6.2.3. Context View Pane .......................................................................28
6.2.4. Menu Bar......................................................................................29
6.2.5. Description Pane ..........................................................................30
6.3. Configuring Preferences in Windows...................................................30
6.4. Connecting to a Host............................................................................. 31
6.5. Managing the Host...............................................................................31
6.5.1. Information Tab: Host Information ..............................................31
6.5.2. Information Tab: iSCSI Initiator ....................................................32
6.5.3. Configuration Tab: System Management.....................................32
6.6. Managing the Network Adapter ..........................................................32
6.6.1. Viewing Adapter Information ......................................................32
6.6.2. Viewing Resource Information.....................................................32
6.6.3. Viewing Hardware Information....................................................34
6.6.4. Configuring Adapter Parameters .................................................34
6.6.5. Configure Multi-function Parameters Using the Wizard .............34
6.6.6. Hardware and Resource Configuration Wizard: Introduction .....35
6.6.7. Hardware and Resource Configuration Wizard: Port Configuration
35
6.6.8. Hardware and Resource Configuration Wizard: Configure
Resources .....................................................................................................35
6.6.9. Hardware and Resource Configuration Wizard: Commit and Finish
36
6.7. Managing Ethernet Controller (Port)...................................................36
6.7.1. Viewing Port Level Information ...................................................36
6.7.2. Viewing Vital Signs .......................................................................37
6.7.3. Viewing NIC Partitioning Information ..........................................38
6.7.4. Testing the Network.....................................................................40
6.7.5. Running Diagnostic Tests in Windows .........................................41
6.8. Analyzing Cables in Windows ..............................................................43
6.9. Managing the LAN Device....................................................................45
6.9.1. Viewing NDIS Information............................................................45
6.9.2. Configuring the NDIS Driver.........................................................46
6.10. Viewing Resource Information.............................................................53
6.10.1. Configuring System Settings ........................................................53
6.10.2. Viewing Statistics .........................................................................53

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6.10.3. Viewing Resource Reservations ...................................................57
6.10.4. Configuring the IP Address for iSCSI Offload ...............................57
6.11. Configuring Teaming ............................................................................58
6.11.1. Team Types...................................................................................59
6.11.2. Standby Team Member and Auto-Fallback Disable Mode ..........60
6.11.3. LiveLink.........................................................................................60
6.11.4. Using the Broadcom Teaming Wizard..........................................60
6.11.5. Using Expert Mode.......................................................................70
6.11.6. Viewing BASP Statistics ................................................................76
6.12. Configuring With the Command Line Interface Utility ........................77
6.12.1. Supported Operating Systems .....................................................77
6.12.2. Installation ...................................................................................77
6.13. Troubleshooting BACS..........................................................................77
7. User Diagnostics in DOS: D-Link DXE-820T Network Adapter User Guide ..........79
7.1. Introduction .........................................................................................79
7.2. System Requirements ..........................................................................79
7.3. Performing Diagnostics ........................................................................79
7.4. Diagnostic Test Descriptions ................................................................82
8. Specifications: D-Link DXE-820T Network Adapter User Guide...........................86
8.1. 10/100/1000BASE-T and 10GBASE-T Cable Specifications..................86
8.2. Interface Specifications........................................................................86
9. Troubleshooting: D-Link DXE-820T Network Adapter User Guide ......................87
9.1. Hardware Diagnostics ..........................................................................87
9.2. Checking Port LEDs...............................................................................87
9.3. Troubleshooting Checklist....................................................................87
9.4. Checking if Current Drivers are Loaded ...............................................88
9.4.1. Windows ......................................................................................88
9.4.2. Linux.............................................................................................88
9.5. Running a Cable Length Test ................................................................89
9.6. Testing Network Connectivity ..............................................................89
9.6.1. Windows ......................................................................................89
9.6.2. Linux.............................................................................................89
9.7. Microsoft Virtualization with Hyper-V.................................................90
9.7.1. Single Network Adapter...............................................................90
9.7.2. Teamed Network Adapters ..........................................................91
9.8. Removing the Device Drivers ...............................................................93
9.9. Upgrading Windows Operating Systems..............................................94
9.10. Broadcom Boot Agent..........................................................................94

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9.11. Broadcom Advanced Server Program (BASP) ......................................94
9.12. Linux.....................................................................................................96
9.13. NPAR.....................................................................................................96
9.14. Miscellaneous ......................................................................................97

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1. Introduction
Thank you for choosing the D-Link DXE-820T, the value leader among 10 Gigabit
Ethernet adapters for PCI Express Bus personal computers. The D-Link DXE-820T PCI
Express 10 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter is a high performance adapter designed for the
high-speed PCI Express Bus Architecture. The PCI Express 10 Gigabit Ethernet
Adapter offers increased bandwidth, reliability, and more functionality than standard
PCI network cards. It is specifically designed to allow throughput at rates up to 40
Gbps, thus eliminating the bottleneck that exists with current 32 and 64 bit PCI bus
architecture
1.1. Functionality and Features
1.1.1. Functional Description
DXE-820T is a 10 GbE converged network interface controller (C-NIC) that can
simultaneously perform accelerated data networking and storage networking on a
standard Ethernet network. The C-NIC offers acceleration for popular protocols used
in the data center, such as:
Internet Small Computer Systems Interface (iSCSI) offload for accelerating network
storage access featuring centralized boot functionality (iSCSI boot).
Enterprise networks that use multiple protocols and multiple network fabrics, benefit
from the C-NICs ability to combine data communications, storage, and clustering
over a single Ethernet fabric by boosting server CPU processing performance and
memory utilization while alleviating I/O bottlenecks.
Using the Broadcom teaming software, you can split your network into virtual LANs
(VLANs) as well as group multiple network adapters together into teams to provide
network load balancing and fault tolerance functionality. See Configuring Teaming
and Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet Teaming Services for detailed information about
teaming. See Virtual LANs, for a description of VLANs. See Configuring Teaming for
instructions on configuring teaming and creating VLANs on Windows operating
systems
1.1.2. Features
The following is a list of DXE-820T features.
NIC Partitioning
Other performance features
TCP, IP, UDP checksum

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TCP segmentation
Adaptive interrupts
Receive Side Scaling (RSS)
Manageability
Statistics for SNMP MIB II, Ethernet-like MIB, and Ethernet MIB (IEEE Std 802.3z,
Clause 30)
SMBus controller
IPMI support
Advanced network features
Jumbo frames (up to 9 KB). The OS and the link partner must support jumbo
frames.
Virtual LANs
IEEE Std 802.3ad Teaming
Smart Load Balancing Teaming
Flow Control (IEEE Std 802.3x)
LiveLink™ (supported in both the 32-bit and 64-bit Windows operating
systems)
Logical Link Control (IEEE Std 802.2)
Layer-2 Priority Encoding (IEEE Std 802.1p)
High-speed on-chip RISC processor
Up to 3 classes of service (CoS)
Integrated 96 KB frame buffer memory
Quality of Service (QoS)
Support for multicast addresses via 256 bits hashing hardware function
JTAG support
PCI Power Management Interface (v1.1)
64-bit BAR support
iSCSI Boot support
Virtualization
Microsoft
VMware

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2. System Requirements
2.1. Hardware Requirements
IA32- or EMT64-based computer that meets operating system requirements
One open PCI Express slot. Depending on the PCI Express support on your adapter,
the slot may be of type PCI Express 1.0a x1, PCI Express 1.0a x4, or PCI Express
Gen2 x8.
128-MB RAM (minimum)
2.2. Operating System Requirements
2.2.1. Microsoft Windows
One of the following versions of Microsoft Windows:
Windows Server 2008 family
Windows Server 2008 R2 family
Windows Server 2012 family
2.2.2. Linux
Although the adapter driver should work with many Linux kernel versions and
distributions, it has only been tested on 2.4x kernels (starting from 2.4.24) and 2.6.x
kernels. The driver may not compile on kernels older than 2.4.24. Testing is
concentrated on i386 and x86_64 architectures. Only limited testing has been done
on other architectures. Minor changes to some source files and Makefile may be
needed on some kernels.
Note: Support for the 2.4.21 kernels is provided in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.
2.2.3. VMware ESX
VMware ESX
VMware ESX 3.5
VMware ESX 4.0
VMware ESX 4.1
VMware ESXi 5.0
VMware ESXi 5.1
2.3. Connecting the Network Cables
Note:DXE-820T supports Automatic MDI Crossover (MDIX), which eliminates the
need for crossover cables when connecting machines back-to-back. A
straight-through Category 5 cable allows the machines to communicate when

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connected directly together.
1. Select an appropriate cable. Table 1 lists the copper cable requirements for
connecting to 10/100/1000BASE-T and 10GBASE-T ports:
Table 1:
10/100/1000BASE-T and 10GBASE-T Cable Specifications
Port Type Connector Media Maximum
Distance
10BASE-T RJ-45
Category 3, 4, or 5
unshielded twisted pairs
(UTP)
100m (328 ft.)
100/1000BASE-T
1
RJ-45 Category 5
2
UTP 100m (328 ft.)
10GBASE-T RJ-45 Category 6
3
UTP
Category 6A3UTP
50m (164 ft.)
100m (328 ft.)
1: 1000BASE-
T signaling requires four twisted pairs of Category 5 balanced cabling, as
specified in ISO/IEC 11801:2002 and ANSI/EIA/TIA-568-B.
2:
Category 5 is the minimum requirement. Category 5e and Category 6 are fully
supported.
3: 10GBASE-
T signaling requires four twisted pairs of Category 6 or Category 6A
(augmented Category 6) balanced cabling, as specified in ISO/IEC 11801:2002 and
ANSI/TIA/EIA-568-B.
2. Connect one end of the cable to the RJ-45 connector on the adapter.
3. Connect the other end of the cable to an RJ-45 Ethernet network port.